. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Black Mangrove 825. The twigs are slender, striate, yellowish and smooth or slightly hairy, becoming round and brownish gray. The leaves are thick and leathery, opposite, entire, elliptic, oblong or oblong-obovate, 5 to 15 cm. long, rounded or pointed at the apex, tapering at the base into the short, stout, grooved leaf-stalk, light green, shining and prominently veined. The flowers appear at nearly all seasons, at the en
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Black Mangrove 825. The twigs are slender, striate, yellowish and smooth or slightly hairy, becoming round and brownish gray. The leaves are thick and leathery, opposite, entire, elliptic, oblong or oblong-obovate, 5 to 15 cm. long, rounded or pointed at the apex, tapering at the base into the short, stout, grooved leaf-stalk, light green, shining and prominently veined. The flowers appear at nearly all seasons, at the ends of the branches, in nodding spike-like racemes 5 to 12 cm. long, on very short pedicels in the axils of small bracts; the calyx is bell-shaped, 3 mm. long, 5-toothed, persistent; the corolla is salverform, white, smooth without, hairy within, its tube slightly longer than the calyx, the limb 5 to 7 mm. across, slightly obUque, its 5 rounded lobes spreading; the 4 stamens are joined to the corolla- tube in sets of 2, separated by a stami- node; filaments awl-shaped, included; anthers introrse, opening lengthwise; the ovary is sessile, incompletely 4-celled, tapering into a short, included, 2-lobed style, cm. in diameter, reddish brown, shining, its flesh sweet and juicy, subtended by the enlarged, persistent, light brown calyx, the thick, bony stone separable into 2 flattened nutlets, each containing 2 elongated, brown seeds without endosperm. The wood is very hard, strong, dense and red, its specific gravity about The genus contains about 20 species, all of tropical America, from Florida to Brazil; its name is the Greek translation of the common EngUsh name, which is a corruption of the French name " bois fidfele," and has nothing to do with the popular musical instrument. This species has been confused with Cithavexylon vUlosum Jacquin, of Santo Domingo. The type of the genus is the little known Cithavexylon spinosum Linnaeus, said to have come from Barbadoe
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